Wednesday,
Hours 9:30 AM
- 11:30 AM,
Palazzo di Lingue, Floor 1, room 1.12
Students are warmly invited to come to my office. A Zoom meeting may be requested, however, by writing to lisanna.calvi@univr.it.
Modules running in the period selected: 30.
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Topic | Description | Research area |
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Early Modern Autobiography and Madness | The relationship between autobiography and madness in early modern Protestant culture, with regard to the notions of religious melancholy and 'affliction of conscience' in seventeenth-century English autobiographical writings, conversion narratives and diaries, also in the light of the dawning tradition of spiritual autobiography. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Religious works |
Restoration Tragic Theatre | Restoration tragedy and early eighteenth-century tragedy (John Dryden, Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, Nicholas Rowe), with special regard to the representation of kingship. Shakespearean adaptations. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Theatre |
Jacobite culture | Jacobite culture and literature in Britain; the political and devotional writings of James II Stuart. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Cultural Studies and Mentalities |
Shakespeare in 19th-century Italy | Shakespeare on the Italian nineteenth-century stage, with special regards to Ernesto Rossi's roles and performances. |
English and Anglophone Literatures
Shakespeare |